November 9, 1907 



HORTICULTURE 



603 



NEWS OF THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. 



NEW JERSEY FLORICU LTU RAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The regular monthly meeting 

 and floral display was held on the 

 1st inst , at the Society's rooms in 

 Oiange. Among the more proraineni 

 exhibits were: A specimen Cosmos 

 "Lady Lenox" in an 8-inch pot and a 

 vase of same, by John Crosby Brown, 

 gardener Peter Duff, also a standard 

 bush chrysanthemum, "Lady Lydia," 

 from the same hand. Vase of e'lhibi- 

 tion chi ysanthemum olooms from 

 Sydney and Austin Colgate, gardener 

 William Head. Vase of Pink Ivory, 

 from Chas. Hathaway, gardener Ma'c 

 Schneider. Vase of mixed chrysanthe- 

 mums from Stewart Dickson, gardener 

 Albert Larson. Cypripedium insigne 

 Sanderai, grown and exhibited by Ed- 

 win Thomas, and fruit from Stuart 

 llartshorne. grown by A. T. Caparn 

 and Chap. Hathaway. .John Derwin, 

 gardener for A. C. Van Gaasbeck was 

 placed in nomination, and Charles 

 Schv/einfiirth was elected to member- 

 ship. Final reports were made upon 

 the forthcoming show on the 7th and 

 Sth, and the acceptances read of John 

 ;\'. May, Charles H. Atkins and An- 

 thony .1. Manda to act as judges. A 

 letter of sympathy to A. S. Rose, who 

 is ill with pneumonia, was oidered 

 sent by the secretary. J B. D. 



GARDENERS' MUTUAL PROTEC- 

 TIVE ASSOCIATION OF NEW 

 ORLEANS. 

 At the last meeting of this associa- 

 tion the main discussion was in refer- 

 ence to the screening of open wells 

 which the local board of health con- 

 tends must be done to .avoid tUe rapid 

 breeding of mosquitoes. A committee 

 of this association was appointed to 

 call the health ofhcers' attention to the 

 fact that these open wells do not breed 

 mosquitoes, lor the simple fact that 

 they contain minnows, fish which eat 

 the larva of the mosquitoes, and as a 

 consequence they are an assistant in 

 killing the mosquitoes. The discussion 

 brought forth also the fact that if 

 these wells were screened or were 

 equipped with tight covers and a pump 

 attached, the water would become stag- 

 nant and injurious to young plants, 

 especially lettuce, cucumbei's, chrysan- 

 themums, etc. The secretary of this 

 active organization is .fohn Parr. 

 Meetings are held at 2 P. M. on the 

 second Sunday of each month. 



massachusettFIhorticultu- 



RAL SOCIETY. 



The annual meeting of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society for the 

 election of officers for the ensumg year 

 and for the transaction of such other 

 business as may be legally presented 

 will be held at Horticultural Hall. JOU 

 Massachusetts avenue, Boston, at 11.45 

 A. M., on Saturday, November 16, 1907. 



The officers to be elected are a presi- 

 dent vice-president (for two years), 

 four trustees (for three years) and a 

 nominating committee of five members. 



The election will be by Australian 

 ballot and the polls will be open con- 

 tinuouslv between the hours of twelve 

 noon and four in the afternoon. 



WILLIAM P. RICH, Sec'y. 



NORTH SHORE HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



This society held its regular meeting 

 Xov. 1st, President McGregor in the 

 chair. The report of the show com- 

 mittee foi 1907 was read and accepted. 



James Salter was awarded a special 

 |irize for a seedling anemone flowered 

 chrysanthemum, lavender in color 

 with fine quilled petals. 



Eric Wetterlow received a certifi- 

 cate of merit for a fine collection of 

 pompon and anen'one flowered chry- 

 santhemums. 



The subject for discussion was Nitro- 

 Cultnre. opened by William Till. Cul- 

 tures, dried on cotton and in liquid form 

 were used by the speaker i.o illustrate 

 his remarks, also roots showing no- 

 dules; without these nodules a legu- 

 minous crop impoverishes the soil of 

 its supply of nitrogen instead of en- 

 riching it. 



The object of nitro-culture is to inoc- 

 ulate the seed of leguminous plants, 

 or the soil in which they grow, with 

 nitrogen-fixing-bacteria, which collect 

 or enable the plant to collect, free ni- 

 trogen from the air and deposit it — 

 through the roots — in the soil for the 

 use of present and succeeding crops. 

 Cultures lor any leguminous crop and 

 directions can be obtained free from 

 the Bureau of Agriculture, Washing- 

 ton, D. C, on ajjplication. The society 

 extended a vote of thanks to Mr. Karl 

 Kellerman of the Department of Agri- 

 culture. Washington, for his courtesy 

 in sending samples of cultures and for 

 information concerning the subject. 



DETROIT FLORISTS' CLUB. 



The outing of the Detroit Florists' 

 Club to Mt. Clemens last Fiiday was 

 a great success, and the large number 

 of club members participating was in- 

 creased by 13 fellow-florists from To- 

 ledo, O.. who joined in the merry 

 round. 



Visits were made to Messrs. J. F. 

 Sullivan, John Breitmeyer's Sons, Robt. 

 Klagge, Taylor, Stevens, Carey, Boes- 

 lager, and many interesting features 

 were noted everywhere. Especially no- 

 ticeable was the good condition of 

 crops, particularly violets, which have 

 been a disappointment for years back. 

 Mr. Klagge's new boiler house with 

 two 16-foot horizontal .Atlas boilers 

 was voted the best yet. Mr. Boes- 

 lager's new office, erected of cobble- 

 stones and fitted out with concrete 

 benches tastily arranged with terns, 

 etc., was also greatly admired. This 

 excursion lent itself well for some 

 great surprises in the way of showing 

 the club's appreciation for the faithful 

 services rendered by some of its meir- 

 bers. Among these was a presentation 

 of a beautiful set of drawing tools to 

 Mr. Dilger through J. F. Sullivan; the 

 former then presented Mr. Sullivan 

 with a gold watch, while Pres. Scrib- 

 ner surprised the watchdog of the 

 treasury, Waltei Taepke, with a foun- 

 tain pen. 



On November 19 the local club will 

 hold an exhibition at Harmonic Hall 

 for its members and friends. Any flor- 

 ists desiring to show novelties may do 

 so by consigning them to the Michigan 

 Cut Flower Exchange. 



FLORISTS' CLUB OF PHILADEL- 

 PHIA. 



One of the best meetings of the club 

 was held on Tuesday evening. Presi- 

 dent Hahman was in the chair and an 

 the newly elected officei-s were present. 

 George Craig was elected treasurer in 

 place of J. Wni. Colflesh, resigned. 



A pleasant feature of this meeting 

 was the enjoyable time provided by the 

 new board of officers. Walter P. 

 Stokes spoke on the forcing of lily of 

 the valley. He stated that the main 

 point in successful valley forcing was 

 to secun; the best "pips" available; 

 not how cheap but how good must be 

 the watchword. Berlin pips were 

 found to be the most satis- 

 factory in preference to those 

 known as Hamburg. .Samples 



of pips were shown. Two bunches 

 of the forced article were on exhibi- 

 tion, showing the difference in bunch- 

 ing preferred by the New York and 

 Philadelphia markets. Those for the 

 latter were tied up in a more natural 

 way than the New York style demands, 

 where the flowers were bunched in the 

 centre of the leaves and projecting 

 above same. 



A vase of Robert Scott & Sons' new 

 rose. Mrs. Jardine, was on hand and 

 much admired. 



Chas. Zimmer and Sons, West Col- 

 lingswood, N. J., exhibited two vases 

 of good commercial varieties of chrys- 

 anthemums. Zimmer's Yellow and Mrs. 

 Perrin. The latter variety has the 

 honor of being the only chrysanthe- 

 mum scoring 100 points, which it did 

 as a novelty before the New York com- 

 mittee of the Chrysanthemum Society 

 of America. It is still admired for its 

 color and form, but in these days it 

 seems to lack size. 



Exhibitions at the regular meetings 

 are recommended by President Hah- 

 man to be made more of a feature in 

 the future, and he instructed the newly 

 appointed committee on exhibits that 

 each member thereof would be ex- 

 pected to solicit contributions of new, 

 rare or interesting flowers or florists' 

 supplies, etc. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The Cleveland Florists' Club (Ohio), 

 at its next regular meeting, November 

 11, will hold its annual chrysanthe- 

 mum e>:hibition. 



The next meeting of the Indianapolis 

 Florist Club will be held November 13 

 at the Walhalla, 333 E. Washington 

 street. .All visiting florists are invited. 



The following officers were elected 

 at a recent meeting of the Wood 

 County Horticultural Society at Bowl- 

 ing Green, Ky.: President, J. F. Lun- 

 dy; vice-presidents, S. S. Vermilya 

 and S. S. Rodgers; secretary and 

 treasurer, I. M. Hower. 



Mr. Editor, HORTICULTURE, Boston: 

 I must say that when you started 

 your paper I' did not care about it but 

 either it has improved or else I have, 

 for I look upon it as preferable to 

 either of our western trade journals 

 now. It has been making friends and 

 I hope it will continue to. 



Verj' truly, 

 Wisconsin. K. F. 



